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As climate change accelerates, its impacts are felt most acutely in Least Developed Countries (LDCs), where resources and capacities to respond are often limited. Between 1970 and 2021, 90% of global climate-related deaths occurred in developing countries.
If you attended the NAP Expo in Dhaka, Bangladesh in April, you would have witnessed the longest running heatwave since records began 76 years ago. It was not the only record-breaking extreme weather to strike globally that month: Kenya experienced unprecedented floods.
These major climatic events took lives, forced school closures, disrupted agriculture, and negatively affected health, wellbeing, and livelihoods.
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In a bid to address critical gaps in adaptation planning and implementation in Hindu Kush Himalayas (HKH), UN Climate Change, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Global Adaptation Network and International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) have joined efforts to close adaptation knowledge disparities.
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As the Asia Pacific Climate Week kicks off today at the Persada Johor International Convention Center in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, UNEP and the Global Adaptation Network will be organizing the following the events. The specific room for these events may be subject to change.
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As more countries develop monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) systems to track progress under their National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process, UNDP, UNEP, and the NAP Global Network convened a dedicated exchange at the 2023 NAP Expo
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Global momentum for climate adaptation planning has been growing.
Within a week of the release of the synthesis of the 6th Assessment Report of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which highlights the narrowing window of adaptation options, the 8th staging of the NAP Expo was held in Santiago, Chile, from 27 to 30 March 2023, under the theme “Scaling up Adaptation”.
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The Global EbA provides seed capital for catalytic and innovative approaches to ecosystem-based adaptation, a practice often referred to as nature-based solutions for climate adaptation.
The 5th Call for Proposals for the Fund has now officially launched, with a deadline set for the 28 April 2023.
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At this year’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP27), climate adaptation is set to be a major theme. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Global Adaptation Network (GAN) will be organizing or co-organizing the following adaptation side events:
How countries are accelerating adaptation for climate-resilient development
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The development of the GAN involved a broad UNEP-facilitated consultative process, including an international consultation meeting and four regional consultations.